Australian and Tasmanian Cryptocciihalidcs. 385 



Onchosoma klugii, Saund. 



Four female specimens before me (there are others in 

 the Macleay Museum) probably belong to this species. In 

 all of them the prothoracic tubercles are large, gently 

 rounded in front and almost vertical behind, the elytral 

 costae (Saunders says : "Elytra , . . with irregular strongly 

 elevated longitudinal nervures ") are as follows : — one just 

 behind scutellum commencing with a tubercle and termin- 

 ated at basal third, a sinuous one commencing at base 

 and continuous to near apex, one between this and shoulder 

 commencing about basal fourth and ending at apical 

 third, and one just below shoulder, this at a short dis- 

 tance from the base bifurcates, the outer arm extending 

 almost to apex, the inner not quite so far, but immediately 

 behind it (in some specimens feebly conjoined with it) is a 

 rather large tubercle with a spur extending between the 

 two arms ; the shoulders are also tuberculate. All the 

 tubercles, including those on prothorax, are granulate in 

 appearance ; the elytral costse are slightly variable and on 

 one specimen are all conjoined, on another the arras of the 

 outer costa become joined together in the middle so as to 

 enclose an elliptic space. The elytral colours are in very 

 irregular bands and become obscured with age. Saunders 

 describes the ground colour as yellow-brown ; this is the 

 case with three of the specimens before me, but on a recently 

 captured one the ground colour is of a clear lemon-yellow. 



Hab. Queensland: Tambourine, Wide Bay; N. S. 

 Wales : Blue Mountains, National Park, Sydney. 



Chariderma pulchella, Baly. 



(Plates XXIII, XXIV, XXVI, figs. 59, 124, 191.) 



I have two specimens (sexes) from Brisbane (there are 

 others in the Macleay Museum from Ropes Creek and 

 Clarence River) which differ from Baly's description in 

 having four elytral spots (the second pair beyond the middle 

 and close to suture). The male difiers from the female in 

 being smaller (3i lines instead of 4|) with longer an- 

 tennae, the middle joints of which are rather more inflated 

 than in the female, and with almost the whole of the ninth 

 joint black instead of only the apex ; the lower surface and 

 pygidium have a bluish gloss in both specimens (in the 

 type these parts are described as " nigris "). As in all 



